Neptune Beach K Mart to finally close

[beach breh]

Neptune Beach's storied dump of a K Mart is finally coming to a close. Store is located at the corner of 3rd St. and Atlantic at 500 Atlantic Blvd.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/04/21/list-sears-kmart-stores-closing-across-us/83356912/

Will be interesting to see what replaces it.

[Tacachale]

Oh the feels. So many Icees bought in that place, back when they sold them.

[copperfiend]

Neptune Beach's storied dump of a K Mart is finally coming to a close. Store is located at the corner of 3rd St. and Atlantic at 500 Atlantic Blvd.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2016/04/21/list-sears-kmart-stores-closing-across-us/83356912/

Will be interesting to see what replaces it.

A strip mall with sushi restaurants, fro-yo stores and "upscale" burger joints.

[CoastalJax]

These days having an open Kmart isn't much different than having an empty retail building. Their stores are so poorly maintained and understaffed, and it just feels like being in some sort of dystopian movie when you shop at one late at night. This and the SJ Blvd store closing leaves Jax with only one Kmart left.

[Gunnar]

On the plus side, if you were looking for things other stores stopped carrying K Mart was the place to go.

[acme54321]

On the plus side, if you were looking for things other stores stopped carrying K Mart was the place to go.

I really doubt K-Mart has anything a Super Walmart doesn't.  Last time I went to a Kmart it was a couple of years ago down in Ocala, and it was an "experience."

[Gunnar]

Actually, it did - I was looking for one of those handheld battery operated arcade game "consoles" that you plug into a TV a while ago (wanted the Space Invaders Model) and really no store carried them any longer, but alas, K Mart still had them - actually an assortment of them.

[Ocklawaha]

On the plus side, if you were looking for things other stores stopped carrying K Mart was the place to go.

That's a fact. If Sears or K-Mart or S.S. Kresge 5&10¢ EVER carried it or branded it, K-Mart probably had it... probably in the basement corner behind the water heater where they've had 'Roebuck' tied up for 50 years.

[CoastalJax]

On the plus side, if you were looking for things other stores stopped carrying K Mart was the place to go.

It fills in the gap between Walmart and Goodwill, I suppose.

Selection has never been Kmart's issue, at least in my opinion. Its issue was always their poor-to-nonexistent maintenance of their stores' interior.

Let's take the San Jose location for example. Back when Kmart was actually still somewhat reputable, my parents would shop there fairly often as it was closer to us than Target/Walmart. It looked pretty much like a '90s-era Walmart did. I went in there for the first time since I was little around Christmas time with my dad and my girlfriend to get something to put around our tree.... it looked EXACTLY the same on the interior, more than 15 years later. Well, I shouldn't say exactly -- it was much grungier and dirtier, there were tons of shelves that they hadn't bothered restocking, displays were falling apart, the Little Caesars was gone and used as storage space, etc.

Obviously, a lot of it has to do with their lack of money to put into renovations.... but a lot of it is just lack of giving a shit. It's not hard to mop floors, or fix broken displays, or maybe apply an occasional layer of paint. But they simply didn't do any of these things, ever.

[coredumped]

Agreed, I like shopping there because Walmart frankly scares me, and target has a poor selection. But they haven't put anything in to the maintenance of their stores.